SearchChips Sold; Down Until 2008

This actually happened in early June, but it wasn’t a site I frequented, so… better late than never.SearchChips, a site that gave members sweepstakes entries and instant-win prizes for performing searches, had been up since 2005. They say the site will be offline until sometime in 2008, when it will relaunch in a different format, incorporating member suggestions and with a “new vision.”
Good news: old members will be invited to beta-test the new site, and they insinuate in their FAQ that chips will carry over to the new site. Bad news: all referrals will be lost.
I’ll let you know if I hear from them again. In the meantime, you can still enjoy earning for doing searches on BigDevil, Blingo, MSN Live Search, and Winzy (the latter two have been previously reviewed here; the former two have reviews in progress now).